G.5(405) April 28, 2000 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN APRIL 2000 TOGETHER WITH COMPARABLE FIGURES FOR OTHER MONTHS. AVERAGES ARE BASED ON DAILY NOON BUYING RATES FOR CABLE TRANSFERS IN NEW YORK CITY CERTIFIED FOR CUSTOMS PURPOSES BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. (Currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY 2000 2000 2000 1999 COUNTRY UNIT April March February April *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5960 0.6094 0.6278 0.6420 BRAZIL REAL 1.7696 1.7424 1.7765 1.7025 CANADA DOLLAR 1.4689 1.4608 1.4512 1.4881 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2793 8.2786 8.2781 8.2792 DENMARK KRONE 7.8872 7.7228 7.5725 6.9475 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.9449 0.9643 0.9834 1.0701 GREECE DRACHMA 355.02 346.33 338.87 304.26 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7880 7.7848 7.7816 7.7495 INDIA RUPEE 43.68 43.64 43.65 42.80 JAPAN YEN 105.63 106.31 109.39 119.77 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 MEXICO PESO 9.394 9.289 9.427 9.430 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4960 0.4902 0.4903 0.5427 NORWAY KRONE 8.6272 8.4100 8.2374 7.7750 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7096 1.7153 1.7028 1.7134 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.6480 6.4675 6.3209 6.1186 SOUTH KOREA WON 1110.32 1116.39 1129.75 1209.96 SRI LANKA RUPEE 74.123 73.810 73.552 69.588 SWEDEN KRONA 8.7486 8.6971 8.6480 8.3293 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.6657 1.6636 1.6348 1.4971 TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.520 30.724 30.806 32.965 THAILAND BAHT 37.993 37.923 37.759 37.631 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5823 1.5799 1.6000 1.6089 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 672.73 666.82 659.44 587.79 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 118.10 117.44 117.44 117.57 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 96.31 95.64 95.31 95.22 3)OITP JAN97=100 129.05 128.54 129.11 129.60 This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5. For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "New Summary Measures of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 84 (October 1998), pp. 811-18 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/) and "Index of the Weighted-Average Exchange Value of the U.S. Dollar: Revision," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 64 (August 1978), p. 700. Weights for broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/ H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights has produced revised index values that appear in the dollar indexes starting with the December 1, 1999, release. * U.S. dollars per currency unit. 1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners. 2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue. 3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue. For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form, please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244. As of January 1, 1999, the euro is reported in place of the individual eure-area currencies. These currency rates can be derived from the euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below: 1 EUR = 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS = 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS = 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS = 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS = 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS = .787564 IRISH POUNDS = 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE = 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS = 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS = 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS